I'm about to head off to Spain, to promote "Contra los zombis," the Spanish edition of "Arguing with zombies." And I realized that this is an occasion to talk about walking dead ideas about the housing crisis, like this one 1/
You can understand why right-wingers wanted to attribute blame for the financial crisis to liberals, who somehow forced banks to lend to colored people (which is, of course, what they're saying). But it's a claim debunked by mountains of evidence 2/
Among those pieces of evidence is the simple fact that the housing bubble and crash was an international phenomenon. Was it US liberals who somehow forced Spain to have a bigger bubble than we did? 3/ 
But the thing with zombie ideas is that they just keep lurching along — and mainstream media outlets keep offering them new opportunities to eat peoples' brains 4/
